The use of accident and incident data

In this section a more detailed look is taken at how accident and incident data can be used to learn from what has gone wrong in the past so that risk control measures can be implemented or improved. There are three main aspects  

1 Measuring whether performance is improving or deteriorating using trend analysis. 

2 Making comparisons using accident and incident data. 

3 Learning from accident and incident occurrence by using epidemiological analysis. 

Because numbers of accidents can be influenced by these sorts of changes, the trend analysis will be dealt with in two stages. First, assuming 

---